Banipal Prize for translation entries

       Arabic Literature (in English) reports on The 22 Entries for the 2012 Banipal Translation Prize -- and yes ! yes ! yes ! I am most pleased that they reveal all the titles in the running. (This is the way it should be done, all you literary prizes ! Let us in on who is in the running. Yes, ultra-secretive Man Booker Prize, I'm looking at you (and all the rest of you prizes, too -- you know who you are).)
       Arabic Literature (in English) quotes from the press release:

For the first time, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature, which runs the prize, decided to reveal the details of the entries, seeing it as an initiative that would encourage wider interest in the prize.

       Agreed !
       (And the open list immediately proves its worth, by leading to sensible questions and comments from Arabic Literature (in English) about inclusions and omissions ....)
       (Still, in the interest of making this information available to the entire interested audience, and of true transparency, it would be kind of nice if that press release were ... available at the official Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation site; last I checked, it -- and the list of the entered titles -- wasn't .....)
       Fortunately, Arabic Literature (in English) does list all the entered titles; several of them are under review at the complete review, with more to follow:

• Always Coca-Cola by Alexandra Chreiteh
• The Palm House by Tarek Eltayeb
• Professor Hanaa by Reem Bassiouny
• Taxi by Khaled Kamissi
• Utopia by Ahmed Khaled Towfik